Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist
Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist is a Baptist church at 217.544.96501800 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Springfield, IL 62703. It is one of 164 churches in Springfield, and one of 22 Baptist congregations in the city.
At Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, we are more than a congregation — we are a family on a faith journey, committed to glorifying God and expanding His Kingdom through love, service, and spiritual growth.
217.544.96501800 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Springfield, IL, 62703Service times
- Tuesday, Thursday 11am
Phone: (217) 544-9750 · Website: https://www.pilgrimrestspringfield.org
Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 77.5%
- Obesity: 54.4%
- Food Insecurity: 44.8%
- Poverty Rate: 43.1% (32.0–54.3%)
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 20.4% (6.5–34.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 1,462 residents.
Churches near Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist
- House of Prayer For All People — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Progressive Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- St Katharine Drexel St — 0.3 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Brown Street Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- St. Paul AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Pentecost Tabernacle Church — 0.5 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Second Timothy Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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